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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Which postcard of Washington Park came first?

I bought two postcards of Washington Park on eBay.  I was intrigued as to the differences more that the similarities. You can click on the cards to increase the size and see the details

Here is  the card made by Tuck and Sons -- an English postcard manufacturer.  It was sent by Mrs. George Hoole to someone in Philadelphia as a postcard exchange.

First the correspondence side:


Now what the English thought Washington Park looked like:




It is summer, the trees are leafed out, the men and women were happily conversing on the bench as the ducks floated by.


Now here is the other card I purchased.  There is nothing on the correspondence side so I am not showing that side.


Same scene of the Pavilion, same ducks, it is now winter and the bench has moved.


Which do you think is the original, and which is the copy cat? 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Evidence that images were Photoshopped in 1910!

Dan Filson said...

The winter scene is the authentic one. It is very hard to fake all those twigs. The summer one is clearly hand painted. The bench was moved because someone thought it would look better if it faced the viewer. Actually it would have been better facing into the picture drawing the viewer in.

Well spotted!